Weather data for building performance simulation

Building Performance Simulating for Design and Operation

Volumn 9780203891612, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-55

  Barnaby, Charles S ^a   Crawley, Drury B ^b  

^a Wrightsoft Corporation   (United States)

^b BENTLEY SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING PERFORMANCE SIMULATIONS; WEATHER DATA;

EID: 84861093358     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203891612     Document Type: Chapter

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